Update: Senate Majority Leader Kathy Harrington, R-Gaston, is now a cosponsor of the Compassionate Care Act
Amid the flurry of cannabis bills North Carolina lawmakers have proposed this session — each with a unique spin on state-level weed reform — one proposal stands out with bipartisan support. Cape Fear Senators Bill Rabon, R-Brunswick, and Michael Lee, R-New Hanover, presented the N.C. Compassionate Care Act before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday afternoon.
Four Democrats have co-sponsored the bill, including Paul Lowe, D-Forsyth. The proposed legislation comes as revisions to cannabis laws sweep the East Coast and beyond. Democrats in N.C. filed bills earlier this year that would legalize cannabis medicinally and recreationally; other Republicans pushed a more cautious approach that would change N.C. cannabis laws only upon federal action.
The Compassionate Care Act answers those other movements with a distinctive regulatory framework that would carefully introduce medical cannabis into the healthcare scene. The bill’s language enumerates a powerful gatekeeping role to be played by state level bureaucracies like the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS).
“This is the most tightly regulated and controlled…
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Update: Senate Majority Leader Kathy Harrington, R-Gaston, is now a cosponsor of the Compassionate Care Act
Amid the flurry of cannabis bills North Carolina lawmakers have proposed this session — each with a unique spin on state-level weed reform — one proposal stands out with bipartisan support. Cape Fear Senators Bill Rabon, R-Brunswick, and Michael Lee, R-New Hanover, presented the N.C. Compassionate Care Act before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday afternoon.
Four Democrats have co-sponsored the bill, including Paul Lowe, D-Forsyth. The proposed legislation comes as revisions to cannabis laws sweep the East Coast and beyond. Democrats in N.C. filed bills earlier this year that would legalize cannabis medicinally and recreationally; other Republicans pushed a more cautious approach that would change N.C. cannabis laws only upon federal action.
The Compassionate Care Act answers those other movements with a distinctive regulatory framework that would carefully introduce medical cannabis into the healthcare scene. The bill’s language enumerates a powerful gatekeeping role to be played by state level bureaucracies like the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS).
“This is the most tightly regulated and controlled…
